Katherine Toumbourou

Overseeing complete redesign and relaunch of publication, focusing on peace journalism, increasing audience and advertisers, modernising the newspaper, and improving editorial standards. Part of the team establishing the island’s first collaboration between a Turkish Cypriot (Havadis) and Greek Cypriot (Phileleftheros) newspaper; project included the creation of a 14-page glossary of historically accurate and mutually agreeable terms for neutral news representation. Coordinate community, arts, business, EU and real estate sections; supervising 10 contributors. Manage and distribute all incoming correspondence and queries. Setting up and maintenance of comprehensive, tagged, digital photo archive across three servers.

Researching real-time applications of facilitating online micropurchases for digital content, through the combination of APIs and blockchain technology. Formulating business model, marketing and pitching idea to a variety of international start-up and entrepreneurial competitions.

Global advocacy, governance, global annual reports, newsletters, child sponsorship, internal communications; EU Infopoint: internal communications supervision, annual booklet for European Commission; RMEL: communications supervision for Rockefeller Foundation organisation.